Bai Ye waited ages without receiving a reply from Perky Xiaotong. He had already returned to Myriad Wealth Capital.
"Why hasn't she replied yet? Is she embarrassed?" he muttered.
"That can't be right. It wasn't even that bad."
Back in Dawn City, he had said far more outrageous things, and Perky Xiaotong had gone from flustered anger to immunity, then to firing back.
She had only been back for a few days, and she was already showing her true colors again?
Bored out of his mind, he pulled up the hundred-odd messages An Xiaotong had sent and started browsing them.
They contained all sorts of things: snippets of daily life, questions, anger, hurt feelings. One glance made it obvious they hadn't all been written by the same person.
But Bai Ye keenly picked out the key detail.
[Silent Court]-Twins!
An Xiaotong had mentioned Twins several times in her messages, saying they were also in Myriad Wealth Capital and he could contact them if he needed help.
"Twins? As in actual twins?" Bai Ye thought it over, but he had never heard of them. Unlike Black Knight, these two didn't seem to have much of a reputation in North Mang.
"Probably a couple of weaklings. Whatever, they're still my subordinates. I might as well meet them when I have time."
Just as he had long since considered the Fortune Commerce Association his own, he treated the [Silent Court] as his private property too.
Ten Thousand Woods.
It was a primeval forest nestled among the mountains in the northern territory of the Fortune Commerce Association.
The scenery was beautiful, but visitors were few and far between. It was one of North Mang's notorious death zones.
Its dangers came not only from the forest itself, but even more so from one man.